News

The UC Irvine Law Center for Land, Environment & Natural Resources is proud to join nearly 300 civil rights, housing, environmental, and faith-based organizations to urge the White House to release the Department of Housing and Urban Development’s final Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing rule. Read their letter here:
Professor Joseph DiMento at UC Irvine School of Law was elected a Fellow of the American Bar Foundation! Read about this incredible honor and Professor DiMento’s work here:
On behalf of California farmworkers, Caroline Farrell, Gregg Macey, and a statewide coalition filed new evidence of civil rights violations by DPR and county agricultural commissioners with CA Attorney General.
Professor Alejandro Camacho and Visiting Professor Heather Tanana presented papers at the Ohio State Law Journal Symposium on the future of environmental law.
Farmworker Communities Call for State to Address Civil Rights Violations in Pesticide Policies & Practices
Professor Stephen Lee and Dr. Gregg Macey host a discussion of Refusing Death: Immigrant Women and the Fight for Environmental Justice in LA by Nadia Kim on March 20th at UC Irvine.
“California Pesticide Regulators’ Lax Oversight Violates Civil Rights Laws, Coalition Charges” – excellent coverage of report co-authored by Dr. Gregg Macey, Director of the Center for Land, Environment & Natural Resources, by Inside Climate News.
Caroline Farrell, Associate Professor of Law at Golden Gate University, and Dr. Gregg Macey, Director of the Center for Land, Environment & Natural Resources, share the results of a one-year investigation into CA pesticide regulation on KPFA Flashpoints.
“California Faces Criticism for Pesticide Regulation Failures” – Environmental Health News coverage of CLEANR’s pesticide use and farmworker health program